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Expulsion, or Jail?

I am perplexed that New York City's Board of Education has voted to expel any student 17 or older who brings a gun to school or attacks someone with another weapon, like a box-cutter, knife or billy club (news article, March 20). I always thought these were crimes punishable by time in jail. When did carrying unregistered firearms and assaulting people with a deadly weapon become legal in New York?